This fruit is sweet, cooling, strengthening,aphrodisiac and unctuous. It cures thirst, burning sensations, fever, shortness of breath, 'heat in the blood', wasting of the body due to vata or pitta, indigestion, alcoholism, bitter taste in the mouth and cough. The leaves are used in treating diarrhoea and the sap of young branches, in skin diseases . It can also be kept in the mouth which raisins allay thirst, heat, cough and hoarseness. If soaked overnight and chewed the next morning all the above benefits are good for anyone, even for pregnant women.

References: Ayurveda Life Health and Longevity by Robert E. Svoboda - Penguin Books.